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Martin J.S. Rudwick
Rudwick (emeritus, history of science, U. of Cambridge, UK) collects 14 of his published articles on the history of the natural sciences. The central concerns that has animated his work…
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The studies in this second volume by Martin Rudwick (the first being The New Science of Geology: Studies in the Earth Science in the Age of Reform) focus on the…
The science of geology was constructed in the decades around 1800 from earlier practices that had been significantly different in their cognitive goals. In the studies collected here Martin Rudwick…
Arguably the best work to date in the history of geology .–David R. Oldroyd, Science
After a superficial first glance, most readers of good will and broad knowledge might dismiss…
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Informed by fossil discoveries, scientists and artists collaborated during the years before Darwin’s Origin of Species was published to produce images of a prehistoric world based on sources other than…
George Cuvier’s research on fossil bones helped in the formation of geology and palaeontology. In this translation, his writings on fossils and catastrophes are accompanied by a narrative and interpretive…
Georges Cuvier’s research on fossil bones helped in the formation of geology and palaeontology. In this translation, his writings on fossils and catastrophes are accompanied by a narrative and interpretive…
Examines the ideas and practices of earth scientists throughout the Western world to show how the story of what we call deep time was pieced together. This title explores who…
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Presents an account of the reconstruction of prehuman history of the earth. This title takes readers from the post-Napoleonic Restoration in Europe to the early years of Britain’s Victorian age…
Martin J.S. Rudwi
It is not often that a work can literally rewrite a person’s view of a subject. And this is exactly what Rudwick’s book should do for many paleontologists’ view of…
